
1 
This Order may be cited as the Immigration (Landing and Embarkation Cards) Order 1975 and shall come into operation on 1st March 1975.
2 
The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3 
The Immigration (Landing and Embarkation Cards) Order 1972 is hereby revoked.
4 

(1) Except as provided by Article 5 a person aged 16 years or over who disembarks or embarks in the United Kingdom shall, unless he has a right of abode there under section 2 of the Immigration Act 1971 and produces a current passport issued by the Government of the United Kingdom not acting on behalf of another Government, produce to an Immigration Officer, if required a landing card or embarkation card, as the case may be, duly completed.
(2) The card shall be in such from as the Secretary of state may direct, and it shall be supplied by the owners or agents of the ship or aircraft concerned.
5 
This Order shall not apply to a person disembarking from or embarking on a ship or aircraft coming from or going to a place in the common travel area unless he is a person who, disembarking from an aircraft coming from the Republic of Ireland., entered the Republic on a journey to the United Kingdom which had begun outside the common travel area and was not given leave to land in the Republic in accordance with the law in force there.
Roy Jenkins
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
Whitehall
21st January 1975